Rush
– La Villa Strangiato tab

#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------##This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the ##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. ##------------------------------------------------------------------------------#Rush - La Villa Strangiato From the CD 'Hemispheres' Written by Lee/Lifeson/Peart Mercury/Polygram Records 822547-2 This tab is a reworked version of the one posted by AndrewWestmeyer . The song is entirely in the key of C. Standard[EADGBe] tuning. The intro is played on a nylon-stringed acoustic, the restof the song has doubled guitars with distortion.Jimmy Pena - jimmy@walrus.com| = not a standard bar line; just used to separate music~ = vibrato or held notex = percussive note with no pitch; muted noteh = hammer onp = pull offs = slideb = bend string up to indicated pitch/fretr = release bend to indicated string/fret/ = slide up from infinity\ = slide down into infinity[5] = artificial harmonic (use thumb to follow through the pick attack)o \_o / repeat sign (always look for these!)x\ _x\ pick slide; slide the edge of the pick along the stringsPM = Palm Mute; lightly touch the strings at the bridge with the edge of the fret handSong progression:

Repeat C9 figure 58 times. From Westmeyer's tab: During this time three synthesizers and a glockenspiel enter. Theyare arranged for guitar below. Synth I and the glockenspiel are on the sametab, as well as synthesizers II and III. The glockenspiel tab is the partwith the much higher notes; Synth III is also much higher than synth II(synth II sounds like an 8va bassa). The following tab starts on the eighthmeasure after the above tab.

Half-time in 7/8: F A Fe:--1~---|--1~---|--5~---|--5~---|--1~---|--1~---|--5~~~---|B:--1~---|--1~---|--2~---|--2~---|--1~---|--1~---|--2~~~---|G:--2~---|--2~---|--2~---|--2~---|--2~---|--2~---|--2~~~---|D:--3~---|--3~---|--2~---|--2~---|--3~---|--3~---|--2~~~---|A:--3~---|--3~---|--0~---|--0~---|--3~---|--3~---|--0~~~---|E:--1~---|--1~---|-------|-------|--1~---|--1~---|---------|

[Guitar Solo 1] (The first two notes are ghost bends - bend the 7th fret up a wholestep, strike the note, release the string slowly while swelling the volume.Then bend the 10th fret up a whole step, strike and release slowly whileincreasing the volume.)

(All of these are volume swells) (F) (Am)e:------------------|-----------|--------------10-8-7-|----8-7----------|B:-6-8-5-----5------|-----------|---------10-8--------|-10-----10-8-10~-|G:-------7-5---7-4~-|-(4)---7-5-|---------------------|-----------------|D:------------------|-----------|-7-(7)~--------------|-----------------|A:------------------|-----------|---------------------|-----------------|E:------------------|-----------|---------------------|-----------------|

A A D E De:-----------------------|-------------|----------|-----------------------|B:--2--2--2-2p0----------|--2---2--2-2-|-7--9--7\-|--2--2--2-2p0----------|G:o-2--2--2-----2p0-----o|--2---2--2-2-|-7--9--7\-|o-2--2--2-----2p0-----o|D:o-2--2--2---------2p0-o|--2---2--2-2-|-7--9--7\-|o-2--2--2---------2p0-o|A:--0--0--0--------------|--0---0--0-0-|-5--7--5\-|--0--0--0--------------|E:-----------------------|-------------|----------|-----------------------|